Showing results for "The Rock" in Contemporary Fiction

Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby's heart and see his life as if he'd already lived it. Even in death, she continues to shock the citizens of Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and her descendents are doing their best to carry on her legacy. Angela Belle, a haunting and beautiful siren, lures every man she meets into greatness, while her illegitimate and very independent daughter, Dixie, serves tea and vanilla wafers to the statue of the Confederate soldier she believes is her father.

To Tim Anderson, playing the guitar is as natural - and just about as important - as breathing. He’s already decided he’s going to be a musician. But his father has other career plans for him - all involving college. And now, because Tim is on the verge of flunking math, he’s been forbidden even to touch his guitar. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. A top record company has just announced a nationwide contest for teenage rock groups - with a recording contract as first prize. Tim is sure his group, The Silver Sunshine, has a good chance of winning.

In einer abgelegenen Gegend und zunächst nur von den Bewohnern eines Einödhofes bemerkt, erscheinen eines Tages merkwürdige Geschöpfe...

How many women can you fit into one body? A novel of split personalities. A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more...

Die Tage, an denen die Welt sich bewegt, an denen man das Leben spürt, das sind für Tobias Puck Rocktage. Die anderen? Die trüben Tage, an denen man das Leben nicht spüren kann? Gummispülhandschuhtage. Als Puck nach einer Uni-Party Gwen begegnet, schlägt bei ihm der Blitz ein. Endlich hat er nicht mehr das Gefühl, nur Statist in seinem eigenen Leben zu sein.